Rural Livelihood Strategies in Cambodia: Evidence from a Household Survey in Stung Treng

Bühler, Dorothee; Grote, Ulrike; Hartje, Rebecca; Ker, Bopha; Lam, Do Truong; Nguyen, Loc; Nguyen, Trung Thành; Tong, Kimsun

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2583770

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“…The majority of households (85%) are engaged in small-scale farming (NCDD, 2010). However, households' farm land titles are generally not available (Bühler et al, 2015). Regarding forest and water resources, the property rights regime in the study site can be described as "unregulated", even though forest and river resources are de jury state property and are managed by governmental authorities.…”

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“…Environmental resources provide a variety of life-supporting ecosystem services to rural households in developing countries such as timber, non-timber forest products and fish (Babulo et al, 2009;Thondhlana et al, 2012;Nguyen et al, 2013;Bühler et al, 2015). The extraction of environmental resources in rural areas is often considered an important source of income and a means of livelihoods for low income rural households (Jansen et al, 2006;Kamanga et al, 2009;Naidu, 2011;Schaafsma et al, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This decrease is not only due to the growing rural population, but also to the illegal and unsustainable fishing and timber harvesting activities by commercial enterprises, military and local authorities (McKenney and Tola, 2002;Travers et al, 2011). As a result, rural livelihood activities have been increasingly impaired (Bühler et al, 2015). The contribution of environmental resources to household income has been documented for many parts of the world, particularly for forest and water resources (Babulo et al, 2008;Narain et al, 2008;Kamanga et al, 2009;Völker and Waibel, 2010;Rayamajhi et al, 2012).…”

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Rural livelihoods and environmental resource dependence in Cambodia

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Understanding rural livelihood strategies and environmental resource dependence can help to reduce and prevent livelihood stresses induced by environmental resource degradation. This study identifies livelihood strategies of farm households in rural Cambodia and explores their determinants with a focus on environmental resource dependence. The data are derived from a survey of 580 households in 30 villages of Stung Treng province in Cambodia undertaken in 2013. An activity-based two-step cluster analysis is conducted to identify different livelihood clusters and regression models are performed to determine the major factors affecting the choice of livelihood strategies and the dependence on environmental resources. The results demonstrate how different levels of environmental and household capital influence livelihood strategies. Environmental resources contribute a significant portion of household income (27%) and act as a means to reduce income inequality (7%) among households. The absolute environmental income is positively correlated with the total income but the relative environmental income decreases with an increase in total income. Thus, it appears that low income households are not to be blamed for environmental degradation, because they are unable to undertake activities with high return. The findings of this study suggest that promoting off-farm employment, education and social networking reduces the extraction of environmental resources.

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“…It is motivated by the fact that inhabitants from Stung Treng are strongly affected by environmental degradation. This is confirmed from the survey with 98% of the households reporting a loss in forest resources, ~90% a decline in wild animals, and 86% depleting fish stocks (Bühler et al 2015a; 2015b). The unequal access to livelihood activities related to the natural resource base is one of the underlying causes of food insecurity.…”

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Constructing a Database for Food Security Assessments in Southeast Asia

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2016

World Food Policy

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In many Southeast Asian countries, food insecurity remains an important problem. However, the assessment of food security is often difficult due to the lack of adequate data. Studies undertaken by international organizations are mostly rapid appraisal type of analyses lacking scientific rigor and depth. Against this background there is a need to establish sound databases, which allow for more in‐depth analyses. Although the collection of data in remote rural areas of poor countries is challenging, data quality is crucial in order to advance research on the economics of food security. Own case studies from Southeast Asia highlight the need to account for multidimensional facets of food security in data collection. They highlight the need to differentiate between monetary and nonmonetary poverty aspects and to look into diverse livelihood activities. They also stress the importance of the time dimension due to price increases or many other shocks and coping strategies. We suggest incorporating food security research into long‐term panel data projects such as the long‐term panel data project for Thailand and Vietnam, which we believe is unique and valuable also for food security assessments.

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“…However, only 4% of farmers in Stung Treng have a land title, thus the land value is difficult to obtain (Bühler et al. ).…”

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Matching food security and malnutrition indicators: evidence from Southeast Asia

Bühler

Hartje

Grote

2018

Agricultural Economics

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This article aims to understand the relation between household food security and individual undernutrition. The multitude of indicators available raises the question which aspects of food security are captured by the respective indicator. In our analysis, we first assess the relation between the dimensions of food security and households' socioeconomic characteristics. Second, we examine whether household indicators detect undernutrition in children. Finally, we investigate the role of individual-specific characteristics for child undernutrition. The analysis is based on a novel data set of 1,200 rural households from Cambodia and Lao PDR, which combines household-and individual-level data. We capture household food security by three indicators including a dietary diversity score, a consumption behavior measure, and an experiential measure. Individual nutrition status is measured via anthropometric indicators. Our results show that different household-level indicators capture fundamentally different aspects of food security. Moreover, household food security fails to explain stunting for children under five. Dietary diversity indicators, however, explain underweight in children to a small extent. We call for more research on intrahousehold allocation of food and stress the implications of our research for the design and targeting of food and nutrition support programs.JEL classifications: Q18, I15, O15

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Rural Livelihood Strategies in Cambodia: Evidence from a Household Survey in Stung Treng

Cited by 16 publications

References 65 publications

Rural livelihoods and environmental resource dependence in Cambodia

Rural livelihoods and environmental resource dependence in Cambodia

Constructing a Database for Food Security Assessments in Southeast Asia

Matching food security and malnutrition indicators: evidence from Southeast Asia

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